# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/p-j-kurien
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:31:03.836Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/p-j-kurien"
name: "P. J. Kurien"
slug: "p-j-kurien"
description: "Pallath Joseph Kurien is an Indian politician, a social worker and educationist. He was the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, till his retirement on 30 June 2018. A leader of the Indian National Congress party, Kurien previously served as a Union Minister in the P. V. Narasimha Rao government and was a member of the Lok Sabha for four consecutive terms from 1980 to 1999.\nHe was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2005."
tagline: "Indian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/P._J._Kurien_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1941-03-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.269156
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "P. J. Kurien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "पी जे कुरियन"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "പി.ജെ. കുര്യൻ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "पी.जे. कुरियन"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF._%E0%AE%9C%E0%AF%87._%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "பி. ஜே. குரியன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump